Khuamnisht

Khuamnisht
K̔uamništ
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Setting	Verse:Lõis
Language family	Indo-European Azalic Khuamnisht

K̔uamništ (natively K̔uamništ goč̔ /kʰuəmniʃt goʰtʃ/) is an Azalic language. It is significantly more agglutinative than English.

Morphology

Nouns

K̔uamništ nouns fall into three declension classes. First declension nouns pluralize by slenderizing their final consonants, and second declension nouns pluralize by adding final -e. Most nouns belong to the third declension, where nouns pluralize in -t or -et.

Nouns in K̔uamništ have ten cases: ergative, absolutive, genitive, dative, instrumental, comitative, essive, locative, translative and distributive.

Verbs

Verb conjugation

	Weak: lov 'love'	Strong: bent 'bind'	Semi-strong: k̔olt 'grasp'
Imperative	lov!	bent!	k̔olt!
Present progressive and aorist	lovaš	bentaš	k̔oltaš
Present habitual	lovel	bentel	k̔oltel
Preterite	ollovaš	ebbentaš	okk̔oltaš
Subjunctive (PAz irrealis + *wekw-)	ollovač̔aš	ebbentač̔aš	okk̔oltač̔aš
Future (PAz irrealis + *h2el-)	lovlaš	bentlaš	k̔oltlaš
Perfect (PAz stative + *steh2-)	lovt̔aš	bentt̔aš	k̔oltt̔aš
Pluperfect (PAz stative + *ste-steh2-)	lovsat̔aš	bentsat̔aš	k̔oltsat̔aš
Active part.	lovnt̔	bentnt̔	k̔oltnt̔
Passive part.	lovad	bentad	k̔oltad